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1 Centavo Torre De Moncorvo
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Moncorvo |
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| Value | 1 Centavo (0.01 PTE) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the reverse is composed of three panels separated by rounded borders: at centre, a tall ornate vignette of a Gothic hexagonal baptismal font or reliquary pillar with figural relief panels, set against a plain ground; flanking it at left and right are concentric circular guilloche underprints enclosing the numeral '1' and the abbreviation 'Centv.' respectively. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 Centv. (Translation: 1 Centavo) |
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Torre de Moncorvo is a small municipality in Trás-os-Montes, the remote northeastern corner of Portugal, and its câmara issued this cédula during the acute coin shortage that paralyzed local commerce across Portugal in the early 1920s. Municipal and parish authorities throughout the country were authorized to print their own low-denomination emergency paper, and hundreds of distinct issues appeared between roughly 1917 and 1925 — Torre de Moncorvo's being among the more obscure.
The A. Queiroz designer credit is local; these cédulas were typically produced by small regional printers with no connection to the Casa da Moeda.